Malaria Concerns on a High Due to New Mosquito in Africa

A new mosquito in the west African nation of Burkina Faso has been discovered by researchers. This mosquito appears to be highly susceptible to malaria parasites and could help the disease spread.

Malaria Concerns on a High Due to New Mosquito in Africa

The new subtype of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes is believed to live mainly in the wild, whereas other species collected by scientists have been plucked from indoors where they are easier to find.

Researchers grew generations of the new type in the lab and found it be more susceptible to the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, linked to malaria, than other types they had previously found and classified.

"Adult mosquitoes raised directly from wild larvae were fed on blood infected with wild P. falciparum," said the study in the journal Science.

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